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US kills four men in latest strike on suspected drug vessel, Hegseth says

30 Oct 2025

(Reuters) -The U.S. military killed four men in a strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Wednesday, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. “This vessel, like all the others, was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics,” …

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US fails to make big dent in UN vote calling for end to Cuba embargo

29 Oct 2025

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly called for an end to a U.S. economic embargo on Cuba despite lobbying by Washington that included sharing an accusation that up to 5,000 Cubans are fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine.   It adopted a resolution with 165 votes in favor, seven against …

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COP30 events will be safe, Brazil official says after Rio violence

29 Oct 2025

By Simon Jessop and Michelle Nichols (Reuters) -Events next week in Rio and other Brazilian cities linked to the COP30 climate summit will be safe for visitors, a Brazilian ministry official said, seeking to reassure attendees after a bloody police crackdown on a drug gang that led to dozens of deaths. The deadliest police operation …

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Two men sentenced to 25 years over Iran-backed plot to kill dissident

29 Oct 2025

By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Two men convicted of murder-for-hire charges were each sentenced in New York on Wednesday to 25 years in prison over what prosecutors called a failed Tehran-backed plot to kill an Iranian dissident living in the U.S. Rafat Amirov, 46, and Polad Omarov, 41, appeared in prison garb before U.S. District Judge …

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Jamaica’s strongest-ever storm, Hurricane Melissa, turns to Cuba

29 Oct 2025

By Sarah Morland KINGSTON (Reuters) -Hurricane Melissa churned toward Cuba’s second-largest city with the force of a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday, hours after making landfall in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever cyclone on record to hit that Caribbean island nation. Melissa roared ashore near Jamaica’s southwestern town of New Hope, packing sustained winds …

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Serbia protests demand accountability one year after deadly roof collapse

29 Oct 2025

By Ivana Sekularac BELGRADE (Reuters) -Dijana Hrka, 48, whose son was among 16 people killed when the roof of a renovated railway station in Serbia collapsed, is angry with authorities for having held no one accountable a year later. “The roof didn’t collapse by itself,” she said, standing at her son’s grave in the capital …

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Mexico agriculture secretary says still no date for restarting cattle exports to U.S

29 Oct 2025

By Cassandra Garrison MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican Agriculture Minister Julio Berdegue said on Wednesday that Mexico and the United States have not yet set a date to resume Mexican cattle exports amid an outbreak of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite. Berdegue said he spoke to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in a video conference and that …

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Ecuador’s crackdown on gangs fractures criminal networks and fuels bloodshed

29 Oct 2025

By Alexandra Valencia GUAYAQUIL/QUITO (Reuters) -The death toll of the March shoot-out in several houses in Nueva Prosperina, one of Guayaquil’s most violent neighborhoods, was 22. Police say the bloodshed was the local result of a national phenomenon in Ecuador: the fracturing of dangerous criminal groups that have been thrown into chaos as the government …

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Argentina’s Milei secures seats, eyes coalition for reforms

29 Oct 2025

(Fixes hyperlink in first paragraph.) By Leila Miller and Lucinda Elliott BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentine President Javier Milei’s libertarian alliance made strong gains in Sunday’s midterm elections, but he now faces the challenge of showing he can build a coalition to push through investor-desired reforms, analysts and lawmakers say. Sunday’s vote should transform La Libertad …

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